DCHP-3

Green Chamber

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the Canadian House of Commons, so called because of the color scheme of the chamber.

Quotations

1938
Two weeks before my seventieth birthday . . . took my place in the "green chamber" at Ottawa.
1966
The House of Commons is sometimes called the Green Chamber and the Senate the Red Chamber because the carpet, the leather chair bottoms, and the desk blotters are all green, whereas in the Senate they are red.